TBC - Day 26 - 'Fulfill your promise' - Rabbi Alon Anava | Atzmut.org

[Music] [Applause] [Music] so not easy doing shiva by the way now happens to be that we're now in the month of elul which is the month of uh where we have an easy bonus to duchova and now we're going to go into the 10 days of juva which is really chula on steroids but i'm going to refer to something that happens on the period where we're in but it's not limited to any day of the year so happens to be that tomorrow's rosh hashanah what a scary day people think it's a day that you just dance and eat apple and honey that's the day where you need to be trembling that's the day we're being judged it's judgement day much more severe than yom kibu yom kippur there's no prosecution the satan is a off off the hook that day it doesn't work that day he's a he has a vacation is a severe day but nevertheless as we go into rosh hashanah we're also entering to the ten days of cuba asset and in those days it's a very auspicious time to do chuva to really focus on your behavior the last year the last your entire life and we're going to talk in later classes what you want to focus on in the 10 days of juva what you want to achieve with the taste of the 10 days of chuba but most people don't know that when the 10 days of chuva pass there's another set of ten days these days they call you maybe the days of test there are in one way more severe or more important than the 10 days of juva and why is that because on 10 days of shiva you get your act together and you suddenly call everybody and apologize and pay bills and you do chew fine and they want to do this and when i get rid of that you really do chewbacca you know we'll give you a round of applause but after the 10 days of chuva pass you finish yom kippur you jump on the buffet to stuff your mouth with all the food because you didn't eat for 25 hours and then watch now what happens now you go into a 10 days that you are being monitored it's called you may behina now they're testing you let's see if you're going to do what you said 24 hours ago 24 hours ago says that's it from now on i'm never missing a minion from now on every shahrit is next not seven nets from now on every day three hours of torah from now on never a last blessing after i ate then two two days passed you forgot all your lists so in that day they test you that's from yom kippur till she needs 10 days that you're under a magnifying glass let's see now if you reel that's why later on in oshana raba that's when it's sealed because in those 10 days you either can go backwards or you go forward go backwards by saying they look at you in the heavens and saying here what do you think we bought what you said nothing that you said you did a day later you ran a bed back to your sins and that's what happens to most people day after donkey poo it lasts for 24 hours and then you're back to square one so they're testing you for 10 days after the 10 days then they decide that's why that's when you really seal the deal okay now they want to see from shamayim if you are standing in your how do you say the promises we're going to go soon after this class and what one should do on rosh hashanah how to really prepare but if it's not going to last then what good is that so this is one big condition in chuva not only for the 10 days of juvenile not only for the 10 days after the 10 days of juva every given day time every day of the year because we do chuva all year round the fact that now happens to be that we're in a good but it doesn't mean it's half a year down the line this is not applicable now what happens is that many times you do chuva this is applicable to all of us you do chuba three days later you go back to the sin and then you do it again backwards and forth like a yo-yo you don't sin for a week you go back to the sin you do chewbaca then you put yourself on a diet for three four weeks then you sin again and backwards and forth now you already get to a point that you're saying well what's the point my chuva is fake because i know i'm going to do it i'm doing nausea i know in three weeks i'm gonna get tempted and i fail fail again so when you do chubba we explain that in many times that the chuba puts the sin on hold and now they're waiting to see how you behave and that's not only for the 10 days of chivax every time you do chuva know that right away you're going to be put on some type of uh an observance they're going to look from shaman they are talking about the heavenly court they're going to look how long are you following what you said you did it for 24 hours you did it for three months you tried really you struggled you fought the temptation and your urge or you right away ran back to your sin so a big part of the chuva is that you have to stand for the words what you're saying and the promises now if i have a severe situation and i'm doing chivalry pressure and the next day i lost it then your chiva really is not authentic i'm sure you know the story about the person who had a big business deal uh this would be the deal of the century so what happens is the deal the meeting was at 10 o'clock in the morning he left at 7 o'clock because he knew it will take him time and traveling and finding parking oh he arrived the destination an hour before the meeting and he starts circling the block looking for parking another circle another circle another circuit can't find parking 9 15 9 30 9 40 is starting to get uptight doing bigger circles and it comes two minutes before the meeting he's like if i'm going to lose this meeting that's it the view of my century is is going to blow up he stops the car he looks up to the heavens he says god i know i'm not an observant individual i know i lie and i cheat and i don't eat kosher and i desecrate your body and if you're gonna find me now parking and i'm gonna get on time to this deal to this deal i'm gonna start eating kosher i'm gonna start putting filling on i'm not going to drive on shambat and as he's saying that whoop a car goes out and he says uh hold that thought i found a parking and runs into the parking spot so you know when you under stress somebody made a movie out of that there's like this little movie of this uh running in the social media when you're under stress when you corner it of course you do chuva out of pressure but then two days later everything goes back to usual then you then you go back to yourself so just know that when you do chew up how do you know that the chuva is real is because you're putting on a test how long can you pull with with the struggle two days two weeks two months how long i mean whether you're going to fail or not it's inevitable you will fail again down the line don't think you're some superman but the question is how long just know that you are constantly be looked to see if you really authentic in youtube now when you're real when you for real and you're fighting and it's not two days it's three months till you fail then they see that you worked on yourself and the longer you were able to hold you're able to jump to the next level so you have to be very authentic with your decisions when you make a decision you're saying okay i'm sticking to it if you're able to pull 48 hours that's not there's no struggle there go with it for three four months don't be uh you know fall into the spirit that you failed after three four months and you went back to square one but you were able to pull it for a long time from the heavens they upgrade you because they solved your decision was real you were fighting it you you you put to the test you were struggling eventually you failed but that's just the way how they get elevated to the next level and the point what we want to take from that is that we're after the fact of the shiva you're not going to it wasn't going to be accepted right away you're going to be putting some period of tests i want to see if you for real so just know that after you do chew on there's also going to be a testing period from the world above to see how strong you are and the longer you you pull then the better chances you are to go to the next level and then of course you're going to be tested again with a completely different test but nevertheless at least you know that you went from one level to another level and our point in chivas to grow and grow and to finally at the day the end of our life is to reach the ultimate shiva but part of the chuva is growing from step step to step and there's always going to be new tests and new struggles but you make a decision now we're making decisions before rosh hashanah stick with it fight don't fall right away to the temptation don't right away say okay i tried for three days and it didn't work and put a fight and the stronger you fight the longer you pull the better your situation is the higher you will climb [Music] you